Ciriaco Taraxes
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Ciriaco Taraxes is a classically educated composer, born in Serres, Greece
near Thessalonika in 1969. He began to write his first compositions and started playing the piano and guitar at the age of six. After winning a scholarship at age fifteen, he studied classical music composition and theory in Athens
and Munich
.
Taraxes has written hundreds of classical music pieces, including concertos and solo music for the piano, guitar, flute, and other instruments. Since the mid-1990s, Taraxes has also focused on composing rock and popular music.
Taraxes has contributed his composing skills to the following artists:
Serres, Greece
Sérres is a city in Macedonia, Greece. It is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 m, some 24 km northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km north-east of the Macedonian capital, Thessaloniki. The Rhodope Mountains rise to the north and east of the city...
near Thessalonika in 1969. He began to write his first compositions and started playing the piano and guitar at the age of six. After winning a scholarship at age fifteen, he studied classical music composition and theory in Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
and Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
.
Taraxes has written hundreds of classical music pieces, including concertos and solo music for the piano, guitar, flute, and other instruments. Since the mid-1990s, Taraxes has also focused on composing rock and popular music.
Taraxes has contributed his composing skills to the following artists:
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